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3/27/2012

Easy-to-use multimedia control panel

XBMC is an award winning media center application. XBMC is easy to use, looks slick, and has a large helpful community.

Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. It was designed for network playback, so you can stream your multimedia from anywhere in the house or directly from the internet using practically any protocol available.

Use your media as-is: XBMC can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive, and even files inside ZIP and RAR archives. It will even scan all of your media and automatically create a personalized library complete with box covers, descriptions, and fanart.

There are playlist and slideshow functions, a weather forecast feature and many audio visualizations. Once installed, your computer will become a fully functional multimedia jukebox.

What's New in This Release:

Addons Framework, API, and Manager:· Added ability for all addons to provide their own web interface (and handling of multiple web interfaces)· Added support for addons to save their setting values to their own settings.xml file before quitting· Added support for multi-file selections in the (python) file browser dialog· Extended Addons API to support adding extension points for Service Addons (xbmc.service)· Added support for Addon Rollbacks, enabling users to choose previously installed addons over more recent revisions· Added the ability to search Addons in the Addons-Manager

GUI Engine:· Improve XBMC's GUI Engine / Skinning Framework making it even more flexible and powerful· Added option for auto login of a specific selected user profile (good for kiosk mode)· Added commands for xbmc.Player().getAvailableAudioStreams() and xbmc.Player().setAudioStream()· Added support to identify DTS-HD (DTS-HD MA and DTS-HD HRA) profiles in audio stream list· Add ability for skinners to show buffer.